The CNN image shows another survivor in a rescue boat that looks like 19-year-old Jamel Thomas, she said.

She also has not heard from her sons? father, with whom they were living in New Orleans before the disaster struck. Nor has there been any word from their grandparents.

?One of my cousins got out and was put in a shelter too,? she said.

Mrs. La Montagne was featured on ?CNN with Nancy Grace? on Tuesday.

However, she has so far been unable find out from the Cable News Network when and where the photograph that has given her hope was taken.

Having been on the Island for barely 24 hours, she will resume her search by flying back to Houston, Texas, today where thousands of refugees are being housed.

?A Bermudian family out there is going to put me and my daughter up,? she said.

Mrs. La Montagne has pledged to spend as long as it takes searching shelters up and down the US to find her boys.

She said she had received outpourings of support from the community and in turn comforts other women who have misplaced family members from the storm.